With MPs set for a make-or-break confidence vote on the Liberals’ budget Monday night, most of the opposition parties have already said they will not support the document, and the NDP is keeping its plan under wraps. The Liberal government — two seats shy of a majority — hangs in the balance of Monday’s confidence vote on the budget, which...
Members of Parliament will vote Monday evening on Prime Minister Mark Carney's first budget -- a critical vote that could determine whether Canadians go back to the polls less than a year after the last election. The critical budget vote, expected around 6:45 p.m. ET, is a vote of confidence in the minority Liberal government. The Liberals need the votes...
Liberals have already survived 2 confidence votes on the budget; final vote expected Monday evening. The House of Commons is set for one final vote on the main budget motion that will determine if the fiscal policy can go ahead and if the Liberal Party can keep governing. The Liberal government tabled the budget earlier this month. It calls for...
David McLaughlin says building and maintaining trust requires two-way communication. It's also political capital that leaders can draw upon in tough times. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre needs to reach out to his MPs individually, rather than through the House leader and the whip.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s minority government will face a crucial test on Monday, Nov. 17, as it will face a third and final confidence vote on his budget, Already, Conservatives and the Bloc Québécois have said their MPs would be voting against the government’s fiscal plan, leaving few options for the Liberals to find the two votes needed in the...
Nanos conducted an RDD dual frame (land- and cell-lines) telephone random survey of 1,060 respondents in Canada. This report is based on the four waves of tracking ending November 14th, 2025. The margin of error for a random survey of 1,060 Canadians is ±3.0 percentage points, 19 times out of 20. The research was commissioned by the Bloomberg and was conducted by Nanos Research.
69% think the opposition parties should let the budget pass, including 73% on the left and 51% on the right. Hardly fertile ground for the NDP and the CPC. As the House of Commons approaches confidence votes on Mark Carney’s first budget, they know that to force an election would be to court the ire of the public. It may...
The April federal election outcome was dramatically different than what many had been predicting – in fact, assuming – only months earlier. What was expected to be a coronation for Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre instead turned into a hotly contested, close race that led to a new minority Liberal government.
The Major Projects Office’s list of major projects has gotten longer. The new additions include electrical generation projects, mines, and an additional LNG export facility on the B.C. Coast, and more. It’s a good list. It captures both real economic needs and opportunities, and also sprinkles ventures all around the country.
69% think the opposition parties should let the budget pass, including 73% on the left and 51% on the right. Hardly fertile ground for the NDP and the CPC. As the House of Commons approaches confidence votes on Mark Carney’s first budget, they know that to force an election would be to court the ire of the public. It may...
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is defending his government's skills development funding system that allows a minister to hand-pick recipients against the advice of bureaucrats, even after referring an audit of one company to the police. Labour Minister David Piccini has come under sustained fire from opposition parties calling for his resignation since an auditor general's report found his office has...
There are moments in a city’s history when its resilience is tested — when decisions made in distant boardrooms send shockwaves through our streets, homes, and hearts. Stellantis’ announcement to end production of the Jeep Compass at Brampton’s Assembly Plant is one such moment, threatening the livelihoods of 3,000 workers and shaking our community.
For centuries, alchemists promised and failed to turn lead into gold. What is most astounding is that even after each debunking, these charlatans would repackage their discredited schemes as something new with fresh jargon and different salesmen, luring wave after wave of hopeful dupes eager for golden miracles. Instead of promising to turn lead into gold, today’s alchemist-in-chief, Mark Carney...
In both marketing and politics, you learn to live with known unknowns. You can’t control when the environment changes, but you can control how ready you are when it does. As we start this week, that’s exactly where we find ourselves: by the end of it, we could be looking at a snap holiday election, triggered not by desire but...
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government may have just inadvertently created a political opportunity for Premier Doug Ford. The so-called “Canada Strong” budget included some alluring promises for Canada’s academic community: $1 billion to recruit 1,000 top-notch international researchers, along with $400 million for infrastructure and instruments to support their programs. Plus, over $250 million for recruiting international assistant professors, post-doctoral...
WITH MORE THAN 400 EMPLOYEES and valued at $6.8 billion, Cohere is one of Canada’s leading artificial intelligence companies. At first glance, it seems perfectly poised to fulfill the federal government’s goals of keeping up with the global AI race and for achieving tech sovereignty from the United States.
The best time to plant a tree is 10 years ago. Or 20. That’s what I was told by the two retired foresters who put 2,000 one-year-old seedlings in the ground on my farm back in 2017. I had signed on with what was then called the 50 Million Tree program run by Forests Ontario, which subsidized plantings for private...
On Nov. 12, Dr. Ivan Zinger, the correctional investigator of Canada, dropped his most recent annual report on the state of prisons. The truth is harsh: mental health supports in prisons are outdated, without sufficiently trained staff, force is used when mental health and therapeutic interventions are needed, and more. Five federally operated regional treatment centres are “not fit for...
Attempting perhaps to turn a story about his own leadership into a story about whether the Canadian news media have unfairly focused on dissent within the Conservative caucus, Pierre Poilievre challenged reporters on Wednesday to pay as much attention to the recent criticism levelled against the federal government's budget by Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith.
Whether Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first budget is passed by the House of Commons on Monday or defeated – which would prompt another election and yet another distraction from Canada’s affordability crisis – it won’t make any difference to financially struggling Canadians.
A stronger Parliament requires empowering backbenchers, reducing political staff influence and creating real opportunities for independents to be elected and contribute meaningfully.
After Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre said he is not reflecting on his leadership style after losing two MPs last week, the Power & Politics panel of party insiders discusses reaction to Poilievre's comment and looks ahead to Monday's final budget vote — which could bring down the government.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s announcement Thursday of seven more projects to be referred to the Major Projects Office was much like his first announcement of projects in September. It was underwhelming. It’s not easy to be underwhelming when you’re announcing projects deemed to be “nation-building,” and worth billions of dollars if they were all approved. It was underwhelming because Carney...
The success of the Zohran Mamdani campaign in the New York mayoral race has progressives all over the world taking notice. So it’s not unsurprising that Canadian progressives would look south for some inspiration on how to run a campaign that can actually win over voters.
Over the past decade, I have watched the public mood shift in ways I have not seen in twenty years of tracking opinion. Canadians are not just frustrated. They are unsettled. They are anxious about money, identity, stability, and the future. And they are looking at the people in charge of teams, companies, institutions, and governments to make sense of...
When Mark Carney launched the Major Projects Office in late August, he said it was designed to streamline regulatory approvals and help structure financing for proposals deemed to be in the national interest. Article content The impression left was that the government would move “at speeds not seen in a generation” to secure community consent and unlock private-sector investments for...
We have turned Canada’s major-project announcements into what feels like a raffle, with everyone from investors to businesses to economists checking to see whose number comes up. According to the federal government, there are hundreds upon hundreds of major projects in the federal inventory, 32 considered for Major Projects Office attention, and only 11 hand-picked so far.
Billed as an immediately necessary measure that would unlock investment and spur economic growth, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s signature piece of legislation, Bill C-5, the Building Canada Act, was rushed through Parliament last June — amid outcries from the NDP, the Bloc Québécois and the Green Party — for apparently no good reason. The bill, which grants cabinet the power...
If a week can feel like a lifetime in politics, someone should ask Pierre Poilievre how many lives he lived in the past week. Normally, when a minority government releases a budget, the leader of the Official Opposition spends the time after talking about all the ways the budget failed to meet the moment for Canadians. Instead, Poilievre spent budget...
It’s official: there is no longer a political cost for a government invoking the Notwithstanding Clause, meaning that rights will increasingly be under threat in this country. While Quebec had set the precedent in 2019 for pre-emptively invoking the clause, which can override a certain number of Charter rights for a period of up to five years, in order to...
I MOVED TO MONTREAL to live in 1975. An old-stock francophone from Ottawa, I felt at home the moment I arrived. Despite being a stranger to the city—I spent hours walking up and down Saint Laurent Boulevard, the city’s dividing line between east and west, English and French, rich and poor—I knew this was where I belonged. I didn’t recognize...
Meeting Canada’s AI moment requires all of us – government, business, academia and entrepreneurs – to bet on Canada. Success demands that businesses embed AI into real operations while policy makers create conditions that reward sovereign innovation. Both matter. Both must move now.
A 30-day sprint cannot deliver sound ideas in the public interest. A proper review needs to recognize the threat of rising U.S. authoritarianism. Canada’s minister of artificial intelligence recently announced a “30-day national sprint” to help the government renew the country’s AI strategy and secure its oversight of ever-expanding digital technologies.
- A woman whose cousin was killed says the release last week of a man who killed two women is another outrage from a justice system that victimizes Indigenous women and girls.
The Swedish royal family is paying a rare, three-day state visit to Canada this week, bringing with them a delegation of top government ministers and representatives from dozens of Swedish companies. King Carl XVI Gustaf -- Sweden's longest reigning monarch -- and Queen Silvia are in Ottawa and Montreal Tuesday through Thursday. It's their first trip to Canada since 2006...
Cheaper prices at the gas pumps and grocery store helped bring down inflation in October, Statistics Canada said Monday. The annual rate of inflation cooled to 2.2 per cent in October – a tick higher than economists’ expectations but down from 2.4 per cent in September. Gas prices fell 4.8 per cent on a monthly basis in October as retailers...
Appearing on the Arlene is Alone podcast, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau reflected on her current relationship with former prime minister Justin Trudeau, emphasizing that despite their separation, they remain connected as co-parents. In August 2023, the pair separated after 18 years of marriage and have three children: Xavier, Ella-Grace and Hadrien. “I’m definitely not a single mom,” she said in her...
Carney's first major step in resetting relations with India happened in June when he invited Narendra Modi to Canada
Instead of waiting months, a federal program is now taking years to process the applications of refugees who are living overseas and have a job waiting for them in Canada. As a result, some Canadian businesses are unable to fill positions, while skilled refugees are also in limbo and risk exploitation, arrest or detention. In 2018, the federal government launched...
WINNIPEG -- Prime Minister Mark Carney was on hand in Winnipeg for the 112th Grey Cup game between the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Montreal Alouettes.
WINNIPEG -- One of the federal government's proposed nation-building projects -- the expansion of the Port of Churchill and the rail line that serves the remote northern community -- will require a lot of work, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Sunday.
SHERBROOKE -- Parti Quebecois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon rallied his party faithful Sunday, less than a year from the next provincial election and with a number of important tests to come before then.
A crucial budget confidence vote on Monday could trigger an election. As the federal government faces a crucial confidence vote on its budget Monday, government whip Mark Gerretsen says it is "ready for an election" if one is triggered. In a Sunday interview with Rosemary Barton Live, Gerretsen said his government has reached out to all opposition parties to hear...
"The energy sector has been demonized,” Whitecap Resources CEO laments, as Mark Carney's list of nation-building projects still contains no Alberta pipeline
It’s more economical for the Speaker to live at a hotel than at the official residence in Gatineau Hills, says spokesman Olivier Duhaime. Liberal MP Francis Scarpaleggia, who was elected as House Speaker in May following the last general election, has chosen not to reside at “The Farm,” the Speaker’s official residence in the Gatineau Hills in Quebec, opting instead...
“You could have an incredible political fallout because the prime minister doesn’t have the usual mechanism and folks that could help [him] manage a crisis because he’s all on his own,” said Sen. Hassan Yussuff. “I think the government needs to scramble now to get to get ready [for the CUSMA review].”
Defence Minister David McGuinty says Canada isn’t ruling out diversifying its fighter-jet purchases from more than one company in order to fulfil capability requirements. “We’re grateful for any forthcoming offer that comes forward,” McGuinty told CTV Question Period host Vassy Kapelos in an interview airing Sunday. “If anybody walks into Canada tomorrow from a sovereign wealth fund or with a...
- Almost 83 per cent of delegates attending a convention of British Columbia's New Democrats signalled their support for Premier David Eby by not asking for a leadership review. Of the 740 delegates who cast ballots, 609 opted against calling for a review of Eby's leadership. The announcement of the vote comes after Eby used his appearance at the convention...
A prominent academic and former UN special rapporteur says he was detained by customs agents in Toronto while on his way to speak at a conference on human rights violations against Palestinians.
British Columbia Premier David Eby says the province finds itself at a "pivot point" between an "old order that is fading" and a "new one that has yet to be defined." Eby, who is speaking to delegates at the convention of British Columbia's New Democrats in Victoria, says British Columbia has everything it needs to build a "stronger, more secure...
The numbers certainly conclude that if all opposition MPs vote against the budget then the government will fall. But will that happen and will it happen next week? All that on the heels of the budget and the latest major projects list? That and this question -- Is Mark Carney still green? All this with Chantal Hebert and Bruce Anderson...
Delegates attending the convention of British Columbia's New Democrats have called on their own government to build ferries in Canada and "prioritize" shipyards in B.C. The appeal comes in form of a resolution backed by the BC Federation of Labour and BC Building Trade among others, and follows BC Ferries' decision to contract a shipyard owned by China's communist government...
A handful of proposed expansions to major pipelines in the country could noticeably increase the amount of oil that can be exported out of Western Canada. In total, they add up to the equivalent to constructing a large brand new pipeline. Enbridge is proposing four different expansions to its pipeline system, which is the largest in the country. The Calgary-based...
Where Carney was once in nearly a 24/7 texting-back-and-forth relationship with Trump, the prime minister and the president have had no contact on trade since the APEC summit in Korea, his office confirmed to the Star Friday. Prime Minister Mark Carney and his team are so over it. From scampering in search of meetings with President Donald Trump and top...
Interim parliamentary budget officer (PBO) Jason Jacques says he will be applying for his job on a permanent basis, now that the posting is officially up. “Oh absolutely,” Jacques said in an interview with CTV Question Period airing Sunday. “From my own perspective, having worked in the office since the beginning, I think it’s important that parliamentarians have the choice.”...
One week after Canada lost its measles elimination status, some MPs say the development is an unfortunate “milestone,” and has turned this country into a “pariah.” “It makes us a pariah. It’s what we see in a lot of developing countries. This is ridiculous. I mean, measles was eliminated around the world even in developing countries,” said Hedy Fry (Vancouver...
Jivani has lately been spending a lot of time meeting young Canadians. Conservative MP Jamil Jivani doesn’t yet have a critic assignment, but he’s still finding plenty of ways to keep himself busy. One glance at the link-heavy website for the Yale Law graduate’s new “Restore the North” initiative conjures up the image of an overachieving high school senior anxiously...
Prime Minister Mark Carney will travel to the United Arab Emirates next week, as both that country and Canada face questions over alleged links to actrocities in Sudan. The UAE is said to be supporting the paramilitary Rapid Support Force (RSF) in Sudan's civil war, while Ottawa is under the microscope over the reported presence of Canadian-made armoured vehicles in...
Members of British Columbia's New Democrats are meeting this weekend in Victoria with a mandatory leadership review for Premier David Eby and as many as 400 resolutions for delegates to consider. Eby says he's looking forward to the convention to celebrate with friends he hasn't seen in a long time, but he expects to hear directly from people about how...
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and his office will not say if his caucus will be whipped by party leadership and urged to vote against Prime Minister Mark Carney’s budget next week — a vote that could trigger another election if the minority government falls. Asked by reporters in Calgary on Friday if he was confident that all his members of...
WASHINGTON -- A record number of younger American women now say they want to leave the United States -- and their most common destination of choice is Canada.
The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers is praising Ottawa's latest list of major projects after another liquefied natural gas project made the cut, but environment groups are warning it is taking Canada in the wrong direction. On Thursday, Prime Minister Mark Carney released the second list of projects his government is submitting to the Major Projects Office for consideration as...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump 's veneer of political invulnerability has begun to crack as he struggles to find his footing on Americans' concerns about affordability and fails to extinguish a push by renegade Republicans to release more files from the Jeffrey Epstein case.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a letter to Attorney General Pam Biondi on Monday, lawyers for Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook disputed allegations by a Trump administration official that she committed mortgage fraud.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House is heading towards a vote on a bill to force the Justice Department to release the case files it has collected on the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, pushing past a monthslong effort by President Donald Trump and Republican leaders to stymie the effort.
President Donald Trump said House Republicans should vote to release the files in the Jeffrey Epstein case, a startling reversal after previously fighting the proposal as a growing number of those in his own party supported it.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump said Friday that he had successfully eased hostilities between Cambodia and Thailand, saying that he'd been able to preserve a previous, U.S.-brokered ceasefire that had appeared to be breaking down.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. military's 20th strike on a boat accused of transporting drugs has killed four people in the Caribbean Sea, a Pentagon official said Friday, coming as the Trump administration escalates its campaign in South American waters.
President Isaac Herzog announced Wednesday that US President Donald Trump had written him to ask him to pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is currently standing trial on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust.
LONDON (AP) -- President Donald Trump 's threat to bring a billion-dollar lawsuit against the BBC has cast a shadow over the British broadcaster's future, but it could also be a bluff with little legal merit.
LONDON (AP) -- The sudden resignation of two top bosses at the BBC over the editing of a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump dealt a huge blow to the broadcaster, which is revered by some in Britain as a national treasure but derided by others as outdated and left-leaning.
Violent crime in Canada’s cities has not only risen – it has become a growing threat affecting urban communities across the country. While headlines often focus on year-to-year fluctuations in crime, the Urban Violent Crime Report, Volume 2 reveals a deeper and more troubling reality: over the past decade, violent crime has increased significantly across Canadian cities, spreading beyond Toronto...
Dubbed a “generational investment” that will help define the next century, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first federal Budget, tabled on November 4, includes broadly anticipated themes. The 400+ page document proposes trimming day-to-day operational government spending, increasing investments in capital projects and the military, and introducing measures to make Canadian businesses more competitive. The goals are clear: “More than 75%...
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Pierre Poilievre’s recent video attacking Mark Carney could have been a strong argument. If not for the air quotes. When he says Carney promised he could “handle Trump” and “negotiate a win,” his fingers twitch into the familiar inverted-comma gesture. It’s a tiny move, but it says everything. Air quotes don’t persuade; they perform. They turn conviction into commentary and...
As Prime Minister Mark Carney said, “Donald Trump wants to break us so America can own us.” But what if Trump decides to use military power along with economic tariffs? An Arctic expert writing in The Globe and Mail says we shouldn’t think of tanks or helicopters streaming over the border. Instead, an American show-of-force could begin with a single...
I am very worried that Canada is sleepwalking into potentially the most dangerous military project since the atom bomb. Trump’s Golden Dome will put thousands of weapons in space – one of the few places where there are no weapons today – and lock us into a new Cold War with Russia and China that will rob our children and...
Ottawa is pretty much laser-focused on the budget these days – the substance and the politics surrounding it – and that’s what we’re primarily going to spend the hour on today. Plus, the resurgence of industrial policy, effectiveness of the Major Projects Office, managing floor crossers while in government, managing unrest in caucus, and leadership’s attempts to deal with it...
Canada has seen four incidents in just two months of Canadian Border Service Agency primary inspection kiosks going down at some of the country's busiest airports. CBSA's President Erin O'Gorman admitted they use what it calls 'legacy systems', but besides the security delays at air and land-crossings, these outages highlight the real neglect Ottawa has done to its agencies' technologies...
With the absolutely massive amounts of money tied up in the AI data centre boom, it's not hard to see why people fear a bubble. That worry has come into sharper focus in recent weeks, following comments from OpenAI and some big moves on the stock market. This recent round of bubble fear isn't about the tech itself. Rather, it's...
Looming over the Liberals is whether Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first budget will pass its final vote on Monday in the House of Commons. So far, no other political party has given a sign they will support it. Green Party Leader Elizabeth May discusses whether she’ll change her mind and vote with the Liberals on the budget. Christopher Nardi of...
